Sunday, 8 November 2009

Research on Rock Music Videos

Below are some of the best rock music videos listed:




  • Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

  • Aerosmith - Janies Got A Gun
  • Aerosmith - The otherside

  • Metallica - Enter Sandman
  • Pearl Jam - Jeremy
  • Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

  • White Zombie - More Human Than Human

  • Metallica - Until It Sleeps

  • Aerosmith - Falling in Love

  • Aerosmith - Pink

  • KoRn - Freak on a Leash

  • Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff

  • Limp Bizkit - Rollin

  • Linkin Park - In the End

  • Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong

  • Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl

  • Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams

  • AFI - Miss Murder

  • Linkin Park - Shadow of the Day



Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine





The video shows the band rehearsing in an abandoned theatre surrounded by crew member. This is regularly used in most rock videos. The original idea for the video was rejected as it was about drug-trafficing. The video was going to feature an Asian women carrying a baby into a foreign land, where she then discovers at the end that the child was dead and was actually filled with heroine. This idea was rejected by Griffin Records.

Metallica - Enter Sandman





The music video combines images of a child having a nightmare with images of an old man as well as shots of Metallica performing. The child is shown having a nightmare of drowning, falling from the top of a building, being chased by a truck and finally falling from a mountain. Throughout the video the images are constantly flickering. In this it shows that rock videos usually have an underlyning story which is dark as well as shots of the band performing, this may become useful when filming my music video.

Linkin Park - Shadow of the Day







The music video takes place in what seems to be America where there is unrest as it seems the world is war-torn. There is a lot of violence involving police, soldiers and rioting police are shown detaining civilians. Plumes of smoke can be seen in the background in the sky. Near the end of the video a car is set on fire while mobs are throwing molotov cocktails at the police, resulting in the police and SWAT teams opening fire on the mobs while they are retreating. Chester then stands in front of the burning car while looking at the carnage that surrounds him. He then turns towards the flames and the video fades to black. In the background the mob can be heard chanting "We Want Freedom". The area bears some resemblance to Downing Street in London.



In the video it uses some forms and conventions used by the genre alternative rock such as punk. This is shown as it is anti -war which is one of the ideologies which Punks follow.



Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams






The music video shows the band breaking down in a desert, who then begin to walk down a dusty road. This is then followed by images in LA showing homeless people and other sad sights. The band are also shown performing in a abandoened warehouse.



The director Samuel Bayer used unorthordox techniques to get the aged look of the video. he scratched the film with razor blades, poured coffee on it and smudged cigarettes on it.

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